Photography Quote by David Hurn

These are the two basic controls at the photographer's command--positi on and timing--all others are extensions, peripheral ones, compared to them

— David Hurn

The minute you point a camera at something, you are manipulating the image, because you are cropping out whatever is to the left and…

— David LaChapelle

The camera gives you some control.

— Ryan McGinley

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or…

— Minor White

As a photographer you enlarge or emphasize a certain moment, making it another reality.

— Rineke Dijkstra

The ambition of instantaneous photography... was that of preserving the spontaneity of action and avoiding any indication that the presence of the picture taker…

— Rudolf Arnheim

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

— Conrad Hall

The photographer is a manipulator of light; photography is a manipulation of light.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has…

— Reed Morano

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

— Philippe Halsman

Of all the means of expression, photography is the only one that fixes a precise moment in time.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson